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Occasionally I try creating my collections using a custom column built from other columns.

A couple of years ago chaley helped me with template for one, but while the collections were named perfectly the books would no longer sort by author even in the collections built from standard fields.

I do use a plugboard but cannot see how this would affect things.

I cannot see how fields created by custom columns would differ in any way from fields built from authors etc. once the are on the reader.

I am trying this once again as I bought my mother a T3 and I just want a single author name for each collection as she is 88 and gets confused easily. Plus it is neater IMO. A few anthologies can really make a lot of one book collections.

This has happened with 4 different models of Sony readers. PRS-350, 600, T1 and T3.

I configure the driver to use the custom column and the author sort will not sort correctly. I configure the driver to use authors or author_sort or series and remove custom column and sorts perfectly.

I am baffled as to how the Sony would interpret the custom column collections any differently.

Thanks for any insight you can provide.

Helen

EDIT: It appears the problem is always showing up column, just that I have a couple of large collections one being anthologies one being a series and maybe an author or two.

Sorting is fine in short collections so far.